How to Use live through in a Sentence
live through
phrasal verb-
People in their 70s and 80s have lived through all of that.
— Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 10 Sep. 2023 -
The daughter, the sister, the woman, the mother, the friend lives through all of us who love and admire here.
— Griselda Flores, Billboard, 27 June 2024 -
Near to two centuries on, the feeling of living through end-times is not alien to us.
— Rebecca Giggs, The New York Review of Books, 30 Nov. 2023 -
For now, though, what a nightmare the Bruins are about to be living through.
— Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 14 Sep. 2024 -
Not that the father’s dreams were achieved by living through his son, but his son’s dreams.
— Shannon Carpenter, CNN, 5 Mar. 2024 -
That is the reality that these kids had to live through.
— Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 6 Nov. 2023 -
He’s lived through a slide just like this – almost to the dates – and still walked into the postseason.
— Evan Grant, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2023 -
Texas resident Joshua Bell lived through three of them.
— Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2024 -
To anyone who lived through the Cold War, the story felt familiar.
— Brian Klaas, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2023 -
Baby boomers lived through the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War.
— Paige Hagy, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2023 -
When he was first admitted to the hospital, physicians gave him a 2% chance to live through the night.
— Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023 -
At 105, Irvine has lived through two pandemics, more than a dozen recessions and six wars.
— Stephanie Gallman Jordan, Southern Living, 1 July 2023 -
With nearly every month of 2024 having been the warmest on record, the world may be living through the hottest year yet.
— Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2024 -
His wife and girls just lived through the unthinkable and unimaginable.
— Njera Perkins, Peoplemag, 19 July 2024 -
The 17-year-old and dozens of other first graders who lived through that day are now entering young adulthood.
— Liz McNeil, Peoplemag, 20 June 2024 -
Older Jews lived through the trials and triumphs of the early Jewish state.
— Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2023 -
Yet none of them nails the sensation of living through streaming’s chaos quite like The Other Two does.
— Time, 29 June 2023 -
Over the years, the museum has made a point of documenting the stories of the people who lived through the conflict.
— Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023 -
But after living through the war firsthand, one artist came to the conclusion that the cause and effect should be flipped.
— Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 25 Oct. 2024 -
But the filmmaker and the people who lived through the experience knew that one side of the story still hadn’t been told.
— Gregory Ellwood, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023 -
More to Read Column: Millions of Angelenos haven’t lived through a big quake.
— Sandhya Kambhampati, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024 -
Three of the characters leap back to their present, while one of them stays behind and lives through the intervening years once again.
— Jennifer Ouellette and Sean M. Carroll, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2023 -
Anybody who lives through war is affected for their whole life?
— Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2024 -
Now my youngest child, born in America in May 2021, is living through the third wave of Israeli bombing.
— Mosab Abu Toha, The Atlantic, 9 Nov. 2023 -
Other reporters are able to watch the proceedings live through a video stream in an overflow room down the hallway.
— David Jackson, USA TODAY, 4 May 2024 -
His goal was to gather insight from the locals about the challenges of living through the long, dark period.
— Cecilia Blomdahl, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Oct. 2024 -
All of us lived through his presidency, so right back at you, buddy.
— Lawrence Andrea, Journal Sentinel, 13 June 2024 -
But his experience living through the city's siege changed his mind.
— Mike Corder, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023 -
Children were exposed to the many stressors that came from living through the pandemic.
— Jessica Seaman, The Denver Post, 16 Sep. 2024 -
But for a brown-furred squirrel trying to live through a white winter wonderland, the impulse to leave the den and seek out water could easily be a death sentence.
— Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 28 Nov. 2024
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